Shredded tires and rubber-sand as lightweight backfill

Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 132-141

  Lee, J H ^a   Salgado, R ^a   Bernal, A ^b   Lovell, C W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GeoHidra   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RUBBER; SANDSTONE; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TIRES;

LIGHTWEIGHT BACKFILLS; STRESS-STRAIN CHARACTERISTICS;

GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS;

BACKFILL; NUMERICAL METHOD; RECYCLING; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TIRE; TRIAXIAL TEST;

EID: 0033081780     PISSN: 10900241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1090-0241(1999)125:2(132)     Document Type: Article

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